WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to six cooperative agreements for floodplain management in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1,358,572. The categories of funding activity are a) community development, b) disaster prevention and relief, c) education, d) employment, labor and training, e) environment, f) inf  more

DETROIT, Michigan, May 8 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, announces that the New Lock at the Soo project is on schedule as construction for phase one of the project began this week. Trade West Construction, Inc., began to move equipment to the site on May 4 and will begin deepening the upstream approach to the locks in the north canal within the next month. Phase one of the project, upst  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, May 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 6: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that St. Joseph, Ottawa and Calhoun counties in western Michigan will receive a total of $1.7 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. Under President Trump's Administration, EPA has delivered approximately $287 million in Brownfield grants directly to communities and no  more

GRAYLING, Michigan, May 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 6: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that Crawford County in northern Michigan will receive $300,000 to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. Under President Trump's Administration, EPA has delivered approximately $287 million in Brownfield grants directly to communities and nonprofits for cleanup and redevelopment, jo  more

DETROIT, Michigan, May 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 6: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Wheeler announced EPA's selection of Downriver Community Conference ($600,000), Jackson County ($300,000), Macomb County ($300,000), and Oakland County ($600,000) for Brownfields grants totaling $1.8 million. "Grants awarded by EPA's Brownfield Program provide communities and tribes across the country with an opportunity to transfo  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: The Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in a Virginia federal court concerning the First Amendment's freedom of religion in support of Lighthouse Fellowship Church (Lighthouse), a congregation in Chincoteague Island, Virginia, that serves, among others, recovering drug addicts and former prostitutes. The Statement of Interest is part of Attorney General William P. Barr's April 27, 2020 Initia  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan remains the third largest apple producer in the United States, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Michigan apple production, at 946 million pounds, was down 9 percent from the 2018 crop. The farm level value of utilized production was $258.6 million. Michiga  more